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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rosco 2" data-source="post: 1919595" data-attributes="member: 479742">At the risk of boring you all, may I tell you a story about vested interest?Ok, think mid 90s. I regularly attended a monthly senior hospital meeting as the senior nurse in community (the head of dept was very nurse friendly). New drug - viagra - was causing concern to budget bunnies as it £7 per pill and we are sexual health. Discussion by medic colleagues who can see our budget being gobbled by demand for this drug. The prof calmed everyone, we have time to  work out the money, after all NICE takes at least 18months to agree a drug can be prescribed. I sat there considering whether to be polite...but decided truth was best. I pointed out that NICE was largely composed of older guys whose willies probably didn’t work so well and that I thought this drug would be okayed pretty fast due to vested interest. The docs largely just laughed. Viagra was added to menu 3 months later. The prof emailed me to congratulate!</blockquote>

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